Police say woman stole more than $40,000 worth of valuables from homes

Police say woman stole more than $40,000 worth of valuables from homes

Detectives said Lacy Anderson was hired to clean homes and stole jewelry and coins.

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Updated: 7:35 PM EST Jan 6, 2017

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WEBVTT DOZEN PEOPLE COULD BE VICTI.>> MS. ANDERSON HAD A SHEET THATTHEY MADE, CHECK MARKED THINGSSHE REMEMBERED TAKING THINGSFROM THEIR HOUSE.>> THAT'S HOW POLICE SAY LACYANDERSON ADMITTED TO STEALINGTENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OFJEWELRY FROM HOMES SHE WAS HIREDTO CLEAN.>> MOST EXPENSIVE SINGLE ITEMTHAT I KNOW OF WAS A20,000-DOLLAR WATCH.>> LMPD DETECTIVE BO HATFIELDSAID ONE CLIENT NOTICED ITEMSMISSING FROM HER HOME AND CALLEDPOLICE LAST MONTH.>> THAT KIND OF OPENED UPANOTHER CAN OF WORMS.I GOT A SECOND REPORT AND THESAME THING HAPPEN THERE'D.>> HATFIELD SAID THE OWNER OFTHE CLEANING COMPANY WHEREANDERSON WORKED CALLED ALL OFHER CLIENTS, ALERTING THEIRVALUABLES MAY HAVE BEEN STOLEN.>> PEOPLE HAD SOME OF THE FAIRLYEXPENSIVE THINGS THAT THEY DON'TWAR ALL OF THE TIME HN NOTNOTICED THEY WERE GO.>> CORD OG A POLICE REPORT, ONEWOMAN HAD HER DIAMOND WEDDINGRING STOLEN BY ANDERSON THATMANY WOULD'S DAUGHTER TELLS METHEY FOUND THAT RING AT THE PAWNSHOP AND ARE WAITING TO GET ITBACK.BUT POLICE SAY NOT EVERYONE HASBEEN SO LUCKY.>> FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER,EITHER HAVING ALL READY BEENMELTED DOWN FOR THE PRECIOUSMETAL OR SOLD TO SOMEBODY ELSEIN THE STORES, ABOUT 80% AREGONE FROM WHERE SHE DID HERCHANGE.>> A MANAGER AT CHOICE PAWN SAIDTHEIR POLICY IS TO HOLD OUTLETSITEMS THAT POLICE SAY MAY BESTOLEN.THEY SAY A COUPLE HAVE ALL READYCOME LOOKING FOR THEIR STOLENJEWELRY.>> WHEN I SAID YOU REALIZE YOUMADE THE WRONG CHOICE, SHEDROPPED HER HEAD AND YOU COULDTELL IT WAS LIKE SHE WAS IN DIRESTRAITS AND THIS IS WHAT SHEDECIDED TO DO.>> NOW, POLICE SAY LACY ANDERSONWORKED TO THE CLEANING COMPANYHOME MATTERS BETWEEN JULY ANDDECEMBER OF LAST YEAR, THEY SAYIF YOU THINK ANY OF YOURVALUABLES WERE STOLEN WHILEANDERSON WAS CLEANING YOURHOUSE, CALL LMPD'S FIFTHDIVISION.A JUDGE SET ANDERSON'S BOND AT$120,000.

Police say woman stole more than $40,000 worth of valuables from homes

Detectives said Lacy Anderson was hired to clean homes and stole jewelry and coins.

A Louisville woman is facing charges after police said she stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of valuables from homes she had been hired to clean.

A Jefferson County judge set Lacy Anderson’s bond at $10,000 during a court appearance Friday.

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“Ms. Anderson had a sheet of paper that she worked off of where she had made notes,” Louisville Metro Detective Bo Hatfield said. “She went through that list and check-marked the ones she had remembered taking something from their house.”

Hatfield said one client noticed something missing from the home and called police last month.

“That kind of opened up a can of worms and I got a second report,” Hatfield said. “The same thing happened there.”

Hatfield said the owner of the cleaning company for which Anderson worked, Home Matters, called all of her clients, alerting them their valuables may have been stolen.

“People had some fairly expensive things that they don’t wear all the time and had not noticed were gone,” he said.

According to a police report, one woman had her diamond wedding ring stolen by Anderson.

That woman’s daughter said they found the ring at a pawn store on Preston Highway and are waiting to get it back.

Police said not everyone has been so lucky.

“For one reason or another, either having already been melted down for their precious metal or being sold to somebody else that comes into the pawn stores, about 80 percent (of the items) are gone from where she had initially done the exchange,” Hatfield said.

A manager at Choice Pawn said the store's policy is to hold all items police say may be stolen.

They said a couple has already come in looking for their stolen jewelry.

“When I said to her, ‘You realize you made the wrong choice in this,’ she dropped her head. You could tell she was in dire straights and this is what she decided to do.”

Hatfield is scheduled to be back in court Jan. 17.

If you feel your items may have been stolen, call Detective Bo Hatfield at 502-574-7636.